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Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, better known as SpaceX, may be currently involved in the boring but highly necessary business of manufacturing reusable rockets, but its future goal is to travel to and colonize Mars. In fact, SpaceX’s Red Dragon Mars mission was proposed for funding in 2013 and…

The United Arab Emirates, no longer satisfied with transforming their own country into a futuristic, alien world, now plans to do the same, in the near future, to an actual alien world. Earlier today, the UAE unveiled its Mars Mission plans and an event with top-level UAE officials in attendance.…

It’s been over 10 years since the Spirt & Opportunity Rovers have touched down on Mars and in that span have exceeded exploration expectations of traveling 2/3 of a mile during a primary mission of 90 Martian days. Spirit traveled 4.8 miles over more than six years and Opportunity has traveled more than 23.6…

According to this chart via Reddit, called “The Illusion of Choice,” these corporations create a chain that begins at one of 10 super companies. You’ve heard of the biggest names, but it’s amazing to see what these giants own or influence. Some of these large brands don’t neccesarily own the…

Instead of waiting another 70 years for Rekall to start offering Mars vacations, why not just watch this video? Using information gathered over the last decade from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express, this model of a Mars flyover is probably the closest we’re going to get for a while.…

On July 5th 2008, wandering planets, bright stars, and a young crescent Moon graced western skies after sunset. Arrayed along the solar system’s ecliptic plane, the three celestial beacons forming this skyscape’s eye-catching line-up with the Moon are Saturn (upper left), then Mars, and finally Regulus, alpha star of the constellation Leo. Of course planet Earth itself lies in the…

Tip: navigate using the ← left and right → arrow keys Today, at 2 p.m. EST, NASA will announce results from the Mars Curiosity rover at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco. This announcement has been hyped up ever since chief Curiosity scientist John Grotzinger was quoted by NPR as saying the rover’s Sample Analysis…

For the first time we can see a full-resolution version of the NASA Curiosity rover descent to Mars. The metallic object in the beginning of the video is the heat shield being released. Fromt here the rover itself makes the trip down to the surface. If you ant to see…

This is Mars unlike we’ve ever seen it before and there are surely more mind-blowing photos to come. From the smallest rocks to the mountains in the distance you can see the smallest details at the foot of Curiosity and miles away on the horizon. We took individual screen grabs…

The distance between Earth and Mars is shrinking to its smallest in more than two years. On March 3 Mars will be in opposition to the sun, providing excellent opportunities for viewing the Red Planet. The celestial event known as Mars opposition occurs whenever Earth passes between the sun and the…